Senior Observability & Platform Reliability Engineer
lplfinancial
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Job summary
LPL Financial seeks a Senior Engineer, Observability and Platform Stability to ensure reliability and performance of observability platforms and related apps. You will lead proactive monitoring, incident response, platform maintenance, automation, and continuous improvement in collaboration with SRE, Platform Engineering, DevOps, and Operations teams.
The ideal candidate has strong cloud experience, excels in production support, and delivers actionable insights through observability capabilities
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field.
- 6+ years in SRE, platform engineering, production support, or enterprise operations.
- 5+ years supporting enterprise platforms (AWS, Dynatrace, ELK, ServiceNow, SolarWinds).
- Experience troubleshooting complex production incidents in large environments.
- Experience with formal change and release management processes.
Responsibilities
- Partner with owners and engineering teams for operational and release support.
- Maintain production stability during platform upgrades and initiatives.
- Triage incidents, root cause analysis, and corrective action planning.
- Collaborate to implement long-term solutions to reduce incidents.
- Develop and maintain runbooks, documentation, and release procedures.
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Job description
LPL Financial seeks a Senior Engineer, Observability and Platform Stability to ensure reliability and performance of observability platforms and related apps. You will lead proactive monitoring, incident response, platform maintenance, automation, and continuous improvement in collaboration with SRE, Platform Engineering, DevOps, and Operations teams.
The ideal candidate has strong cloud experience, excels in production support, and delivers actionable insights through observability capabilities
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